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tyler jones
06-30-2003, 03:08 PM
When I have downloaded updates for windows on microsoft's update site, they have this cool little effect that when you check something off the list, it turns the text grey and kind of swoops a box from the description to the top. It's really hard to describe, but hopefully someone else has seen this and knows what I'm talking about. Anyway, my question is, does anyone know of a dhtml script that will do something like that? I've got a box on my front page of the site that when the user clicks the x button, it closes it and moves it over to the side of the screen, but has that swoop animation for it. Thanks.
joh6nn
06-30-2003, 05:35 PM
can we see the page you're working on? seeing the code usually makes it easier to help.

it should be possible to do what you're asking; it just might take some work, is all.
tyler jones
06-30-2003, 06:19 PM
Sorry, I don't have anything put together yet and I didn't want to spend a ton of time on it yet until I knew if what I wanted to do was even possible. If you have windows and don't have all the latest service packs and updates, try going to microsoft's website and go to the windows update section. Then find something to download and see if when you click on it it has a little boxing swoop animation. If it does, that's what I'm looking to reproduce. Thanks.
Danne
06-30-2003, 09:48 PM
I suppose you mean http://www.windowsupdate.com .

Clean your cache on the computer, and go to that page. Then you can see the source code on your local harddisk...

I looked a little at the code and it's pretty confusing as everything seems to be mixed in a lot of functions and iframes. The code you are interested in, however seems to be in http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/shared/js/content.js .

Look for: /* ----DIV MOVING---- */

Good luck!
tyler jones
06-30-2003, 09:57 PM
I did empty my cache, but because I have all of the updates, it's not finding any that I need and therefore, that page with the scripts won't load, so I can't see how it works. I guess I'll have to turn off XP's automatic updates and just check there periodically until something shows up. Thanks.